skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You want the company to make more revenue from you than you're costing. I agree with this, and try to keep this balance myself in my job.

> The alternative is far worse: if you are costing the company ore than the value you're providing, a rational company should fire you to improve their company. That they haven't means you're working for incompetent leaders in the best case (and leaders who are about to fire you in a worse case).

I think the big problem comes from this largely overlooked next part. Companies are rarely rational. Some leaders will keep people on staff just to show that they are a big team. Some leaders have cronies. Some are just super incompetent themselves; and seem to use the Dilbert Principle [1] as a guiding light by promoting their incompetent cronies or flatterers to high positions. Often, they will snare workers in a lot of make-work tasks while awarding huge bonuses to themselves. Anyone in management is rarely fired -- you will often see managers who have been at the same job for 20 years coasting by just as much as, if not more than their employees.

It seems to me that the overlooked part of "quiet quitting" is due to workers noticing this sort of problem in their management; and taking that into account while deciding how long they work.

And, oddly enough I don't think this is at odds with what you said -- basically, the more irrationally a company seems to behave, the more they will get people who want to coast since they realize the irrationality. I feel like a good way to right the ship is to promote a lot more rationality into management; and quickly get rid of managers who seem toxic, prone to cronyism, or having a lot of attitude about "these people work for me".

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle, says (semi-humorously) that the most incompetent people usually get promoted to management to prevent them from doing more damage in IC positions
Sort of, but not really. it has a simple UI because it was created to make videos on youtube, but it works.

it’s a toy, yes. maybe that’s what you mean?
Then how would you say he was not deserving of the place?

OP apparently isn’t talking about the subject’s brilliance or so. I think the OP is talking specifically about the rule bending for the rich.

> … his family connections certainly helped, but …

Put few people with similar background — except the socioeconomic part of their backgrounds in the same situation and see whether they would have made it.

I doubt it. So, I’d say you can omit the “but”.
Traversable Wormholes in General Relativity
Imagine how many problems would be caused by releasing 0/8 and 127/8 space. There are so many places those are hardcoded, including an uncountable number of internal company applications.
For me and a lot of folks I know, "the year of the Linux desktop" has already been a reality for ages now … and before anyone tries to feed me some bullshit line about "normies can't handle Linux", I've had many "normal" folks ask me to help them get started with Linux over the years, and every single one of them has been perfectly happy with it once they got used to the few little differences they noticed. The trick is to help them find and focus on the similarities so they're not totally lost and confused, and to help them avoid the stumbling blocks by introducing them early on to the important differences that really matter, so they aren't bringing Windows or Mac mistakes and methods to their new operating system. (The package manager / app store is one good example of that.) Truth is that with each passing year of improvement, Linux becomes ever more "desktop ready" for a growing number of potential users.
I did 8 weeks to sealfit, it was ok and nothing to write home about. The programming later though was superior.
Most people have no idea and give it up, that’s for sure.

The people directly elected, the European Parliament, can’t introduce new rules and only get to rubber stamp rules made by others.

Meanwhile the rules are introduced by the European Commission which is not directly elected and thus not democratically accountable.

Consider the very existence of this Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_legitimacy_of_the_E...

And a choice quote

> The German Constitutional Court referred to a "structural democratic deficit" inherent in the construction of the European Union.

But the reality is that the undemocracy of the EU shows in the rules it produces. For example a functioning democracy doesn’t get away with wasting hundreds of millions on moving its seat between cities, for no practical reasons. A functioning democracy doesn’t get to push for an end to cash money and a start for monitoring every significant bank transaction, with no pushback from the electorate. And there’s plenty of other rules to choose from.
Plug for exercism.org (I'm not affiliated). They have "learning paths" for a large number of different programming languages and volunteer experts that will do code reviews for you. The community is fantastic
I assume it’s satire
Just because it is a democratic country doesn't mean it is free from corrupt or malicious persecution.
My name is Joe Morrison, and I’m ready to be roasted on here again. Please feel free to ask me anything or challenge any of what I’ve written!
But he was guilty, was he not? His conviction was later annulled because the Supreme Court sided with his lawyers' appeal that Lula should have been tried in Brasilia, not the state court in Parana[1]

No court has ever declared him quote-unquote "innocent". I'm not saying he should be in jail because I believe in due process, but I am also not saying "he wasn't guilty" from the perspective of the electorate

Said differently, "In a democratic country, why would the electorate vote to reelect someone who was objectively guilty of corruption but is currently free due to lousy due process?" is arguably the better question to ask

Preemptive dis-disclaimer: I voted for neither candidate and have no skin in the game, so to speak

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1. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56326389
Same. It is not perfect but works.
It is very possible to actually game the system with phony charges, and make them stick.

No surprise that the most vocal judge prosecuting these charges was later named as minister by Bolsonaro.
polynesian god of high fidelity bluetooth playback
> I did 5BX [0]

See also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Air_Force_Exerc...

Originally designed for bases without any fitness equipment.
In addition to a program I'd also recommend chatting to people at the gym (assuming you go to one).

I chatted to the trainers at mine and told them how I'd like to do a muscle up. Each one gave me some advice (similar but different) and demonstrated how they do it.

They also watched me attempt one and gave me some tips based on my form.

I can't do a muscle up yet but have increased the number of pullups (6 -> 10) I can do along with using an overhand grip position.

2023 will see me crack it.
I’m using Bitwarden. I was a KeePassX user but I was missing: multiple devices support, sharing selected passwords with family members. Bitwarden solves those.
I used to do the old routines from Madbarz, you can find them easily with Google Image search.

Not really a program but I just mixed&matched and rotated through three of them during a week and switched it up after a while according to the equipment I had available.

I think these are great for something that is easily accessible.
1. Everyone is the main character in their own story.

This manifest in all sorts of ways - from people not being there when you need them the most, from friends dying off as soon as proximity changes, to how and why get people get promoted in jobs. This isn't necessarily bad, but if you don't know how to navigate this it can be quite painful and confusing.

2. Representation matters.

I knew this for a long time, but it didn't fully click until years had gone by and I realized I had unconsciously held myself back from pursuing a wide range of things because I just didn't see anyone like me there.

3. Rules in life are just constructs that we as humans have created.

Starting a business helped the most on this one. That's when I started to see that "rules" or "procedure" are all made up and exceptions can always be made.

(Edit: typos)
Likewise the spikes in unemployment, they happen after the recessions begin: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE
We’re just trading speculation here but I think the boom and the bubble aren’t quite that relevant once you just look at the profession and not the way it’s been funded by VC.

The field, the industry, the profession… whatever you call it… it’s not even a century old. Cooking, metal work, civil engineering, architecture, etc. etc. go back millennia and transcend civilisations. Humanity has had a hell of a lot of time to get good at those things, each culture throughout history discovering and refining its own methods until now, where we see them fused together in a globally connected world.

Software is not even a century old. We are still in the birth of a new industry, everything is rapidly growing and evolving, and we don’t have any historical context to rely upon except perhaps mathematics.

We might have hit our limit on CPU architecture and how we write software, as far as we know we’re the first to reach this point. But the next generations, the next civilisations, can take our primitive work and discover something we couldn’t.

It’s only going to become more important as time goes on. We all just got in early, in the middle of the chaos. We’re gonna go through this kind of maturity problem quite a lot.
> I wonder if politics has any bearing on their choice to file? Or the fact that Elon has publicly been considering closing the SanFran HQ?

I suspect a bigger the fact that Elon has repeatedly publicly indicated things like that Twitter has been barreling toward bankruptcy since around the time of his offer to buy, and that a filing may be imminent within the next year. (Now, those public statements have been largely to deflect public criticism of his management decisions and bully employees into accept poor working conditions, but creditors can hear and react to them, too.)
True status is not needing a car.
> weirdos mad about video game journalism.

Funny how being interested in accountability, transparency and good journalism makes you "a weirdo" worth ignoring.

Oh well, if you're moderately effective about highlighting a problem you'll always get attacked with labels.

Funny too how he lumps them and other groups with "Nazis".

Feels like yet another person who is suddenly whining because their authoritarian websites are no longer controlled by their authoritarian ideologues they agreed with.

The Elon musk takeover has been very positive, if anything to display how hypocritical some of the authortiarians from any side are. It's all about censoring ideas they don't like because "they're righteous (TM)".

Having destroyed alternatives like Parler every time they got popular, makes it feel that no competition will be allowed and theres a sudden desperate turn to descentralization, which is awesome, but it will come with the same ridículous shouts of censorship when any idea authoritarians don't like, gets mainstream notoriety. Suddenly the interest of society will be to censor that descentralized network. The excuse will be one of the typical scares: terrorism, harm, crime, etc

Interesting times but not an interesting article. Just the typical "how do we go back to what I liked and agreed with me"
>The result is increasingly people facing the dilemma where the best economic option for their family is for them to spend 3+ hours of their day commuting to an urban core from an outlying area they can just barely afford to rent in. And god help you if your kid gets sick or your car gets totaled. This is the reality for most working class Americans.

The average commute time for Americans in 2019 (pre-pandemic) was 27.6 minutes each way:
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/one-way-...

Yes, there are supercommuters out there with very long commutes, but saying 3+ hours a day describes "most" Americans simply isnt true.
Civilized countries.
Related:

The Pac-Man Dossier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26134332 - Feb 2021 (10 comments)

The Pac-Man Dossier (2011) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19529487 - March 2019 (5 comments)

The Pac-Man Dossier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12879398 - Nov 2016 (11 comments)

The Pac-Man Dossier – Meet the Ghosts (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8831567 - Jan 2015 (4 comments)

Not sure of the correct year but 2009 is an upper bound (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12886902) - anyone know?
I use many, many commercial applications that run on Linux everyday. In a testament to how “the desktop” has evolved though, most of these applications are hosted in the cloud and I access them through a web browser.

I create applications at work that run on Linux as well though most of those are bought as appliances. Some customers care that they run Linux but most don’t.

In fact, the environment I personally use to create applications is itself a commercial application running on Linux—-JetBrains Rider. I can answer for it at least why I do not use free alternatives and that is that I have more fun and get more done using Rider ( though truthfully I use the free ones too ).
California to face a budget problem of $24B in 2023
I figure the market for "low" resolution imagery will be destroyed when Starlink decides to add something like a fixed wide angle 100 megapixel cameras to every satellite. There are a lot of options for what to do from there, but getting continuous global imagery would suddenly be possible.
Non-JS Version [1]

[1] - https://archive.ph/nLXQs
I am at the point in my life where I have a shitty broken printer that I'm still not getting rid of, because at least I am aware of all the ways it is broken and shitty and how to fix them or work around them.
Unfortunately you guys did not have an alternative candidate, which I was rooting for.

Lula had his time, when the world was a lot different.

Anyway, I hope he doesn’t tank the beautiful country and full of potential Brasil is.

Tamos juntos!
> acting quickly to publicly distance themselves from him

The point being they’re making and keeping that distance. This conspiracy theory, that SBF is facing consequences only because he sort of maybe embarrassed Ricchetti, has no legs to stand on.
I think it is a great idea. The problem is that institutions/decision makers have very little knowledge about open source software so it is really hard to convince them to do this. I can only speak about Germany, but I recently read a newspaper by some IT government official that only contained buzzwords, where it was clear that he did not know what he was talking about. There are exceptions, someone got the government to fund Curl and OpenSSH (both between 50k-500k). So that is great. But you also have a second fund where everyone can apply, and looking at the responsible team you see that out of 5 people, none has a STEM degree, but instead graduated in fields like cultural studies. I doubt that they know/care enough about the threat of supply chain attacks to direct funds there.
After a decade working with Java, I moved onto Scala and rekindled my love of coding.

Looking back at the verbosity of the language and the horror of Enterprise Java frameworks, I would never go back to Java.

Everyone currently coding in Java should look into alternative JVM languages like Scala (or Kotlin, although it’s not as expressive).
yup. https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.41/message_retention...
Casio-F-91W die-shot
Vertical farming can do 10X, GMOs can do 10x, urban farming can cut out 90% of transportation costs, (not exactly what you mean but getting people to eat less meat would 100x our efficiencies) there is still room for improvement.
If the raw tech exists, someone will make an Arduino-alike for it eventually. And it will be amazing, especially if it supports Thread.
I didn't say that inflation would reappear at 5.99% unemployment.

They need >6% so there's a gap between here and there. Right now we're clearly at the rail and unemployment has not budged. The jobs overhang has significantly abated, but that has been a short-term reaction to the policy changes, and it can change back on just as short of a term.
But does monetization affect the content of blogs?

I must admit that I really enjoyed the flavour of old school blogs where a person would just put some interesting ideas out there without ads, pop-ups asking for subscriptions, or product pushing. They'd built something cool or learned something new and wanted to share. They were excited about it, which translated into interesting reading even if the subject was really quite niche.
Under persistant storage options:

https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/persistence.md
Life expectancy is stagnant or declining. The oldest person died in 1997 at age 122. No one has surpassed that record since. There is zero scientific basis to expect that anyone alive today will live to 150. It's not impossible, but it would depend on multiple breakthrough scientific advances akin to miracles.
Deliberately under-capitalizing a privately-held corporation, as Elon appears to be doing, is one of the few exceptions to the corporate liability shield. (Rent costs were known at the time of acquisition, so not providing sufficient capital to pay those costs now that he owns the company can be used against him in bankruptcy court; the fact that Twitter now has ongoing loan payments of >$1 billion/annually does not help him because those liabilities were incurred as part of the acquisition).

Or in other words...creditors might be able to go after Elon personally for Twitter's debts. It's rare, but it does happen, and it happens more frequently when one party tries to game the system.
I think there is an argument that agriculture is highly inefficient because we can't track externalities well. US topsoil in our bread basket was 14 inches a hundred years ago. It is down to 4 inches now. When it goes, we go.
I did a fairly rigorous linear algebra course in school, and it went over my head despite passing it.

Saw it explained in a single slide of Andrew Ng's ML course and everything clicked perfectly.

Where I lived math was taught like fucking shit, it was all algebra and zero context as to why it could be useful in real-life scenarios, zero abstraction such as visualization or metaphor. Everyone involved in concocting that pedagogic aberration should feel terrible about it.
> my comment is condescending to people who don't put the effort for searching needles in the haystack, but instead spend their whole online time in the well beaten path.

Another way of saying this is that your comment is condescending to… most people.

Most people used to have an easy way to find forums on the internet, even if they were AOL chat rooms, where they could find moderated content that was interesting to them. That was the well beaten path.

Nowadays, that’s no longer the case, and most people don’t seek out those needles in the haystack.

My contention is that they shouldn’t have to, just as they didn’t have to before the 2010s.

A corollary: “just don’t be lazy” is almost never good advice, as there is almost always a reason people are “lazy.” People make similar arguments about the impoverished and how “if they just pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and stopped being lazy” they could easily get out of it, but that’s really hard to do with two kids, three jobs, and no time to think about anything other than survival. They’re not lazy, they are overwhelmed.

I’d say that applies to a lot of facets of life, including time spent on the internet; amid the firehose of nonsense, and given that most of the internet (read: where most people spend time now) is literally rigged against moving away from it, by using human psychology to generate hits of dopamine in the form of likes and views, it is hard to find a better path, and the people who don’t aren’t necessarily lazy. They just don’t live on the internet, and it shouldn’t be that hard.
Engineers play one of the most pivotal roles in war and loss of human life, and many don't even realize it. Something that needs to be reflected on more.
It's worth noting that Bolsonaro has conceded wrt. the election results, and does not maintain that "a landslide election" was "stolen from him". And where illegal protests have happened he has deplored them with no delay, advocating for peaceful involvement in the political process instead. Most importantly, he has not tried to shift the blame for violence coming from his would-be supporters onto "the other side".
Related:

Volcanoes, plague, famine and endless winter: Welcome to 536 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30621640 - March 2022 (39 comments)

Skies went dark: Historians pinpoint the 'worst year' ever to be alive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26786838 - April 2021 (117 comments)

536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23565762 - June 2020 (356 comments)

Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18469891 - Nov 2018 (4 comments)

Others?
I'd suggest to participate in a gamedev jam.

It has 2 benefits:

- it shows that you can code something

- it shows that you can finish something useful

As most of the time a gamedev is only 20% fun and 80% debugging or struggling with the concept...

And the ability to ship something is one of the best skill to me. The rest, can be learned.
The Safety Debate Between Manual and Automatic Transmissions
to be replaced by different rats once they taste the power/money. Someone once said the fact you want to be a politician should immediately disqualify you from being a politician"
You may be right about him “deserving” the place, but you appear to be missing the point here: just by pure statistics, there would have been others who also dropped out of college to serve in WW2, but who did not have an influential father like Munger, and who then did not get the admission he did. Also by pure statistics, there is a likelihood that among these others were many who were at least as deserving as he was.

In summary, the argument is to point out the difference between personal effort/discipline/work ethic/character (and everything that’s commonly named as the “reason” of success) and the huge impact of external conditions that are completely outside the realm of influence of the individual in question, such as their parent’s wealth and influence, physical build, natural attractiveness, health, location of birth, etc.

It is very, VERY common that people uphold and believe in the (comforting) myth that mostly oneself is responsible for success and that said external factors are basically negligible. The “self-made” person… You could even throw them on Mars and they’ll somehow become billionaires and own mansions!

There is not much to add, except that such thinking appears outdated (previous economic booms allowed for a bit more control of one’s fate), ignorant, and self-congratulatory - a delusion of a successful person who is neither aware nor grateful for the external circumstances that allowed them to get where they are.

FWIW I like Charlie Munger, a down-to-earth thinker who doesn’t shy away from talking about inconvenient truths. Chances are he would even agree with the above.

Book recommendation: “Outliers: The Story of Success” by Malcolm Gladwell.
For many years, I would roll out of bed and do repeat sets of pushups and situps.

I would replace the situps with the plank now that I know better.

I could not figure out a simpler habit than "wake up, start"
Your comment is not really backed by any fact or reference of any “dictatorship”, so it’s only based on conspiracy theories…
2013, but this story never gets old.
And it isn't the first time the architect did this.