skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a kid I went to work with my dad sometimes. He owned his own painting/handyman company. One of these work trips had a lot of work but very little an 11 year old could really do. I spent most of my day doing nothing, and it felt like the longest day of work in the world. I was tired, bored, and felt like I had actually worked all day. My dad said "sometimes having no work feels like more work doesn't it?" and honestly, yeah. Sometimes that really is the case.

A few years ago I had a tech job where they straight up didn't have work for me to do. For the first month it was amazing. But after a few months a day of doing nothing was completely draining. And my dads words rang in my head again, and I was like damn that as true now as it was when I was 11.

Doing nothing is shockingly hard mentally. We need to be engaged in stuff day to day, and without that engagement it seems like we spend a lot of energy trying to find something to do.
Drug-resistant cases of gonorrhea detected in the US
Yes, it's getting worse. I get and mark as spam the same email pattern over and over.

TL;DR: almost all the people who care about quality at Google are gone or not in a position to improve the product
Agreed. I have seen this similar scenario played in many context An organization is failing. Owners / Board of directors decides to put in new leader and outgoing leader will take all the blame, valid or not. I think all parties agree on this so that incoming leader can start afresh and also taking credit successes of past initiatives while failures attributed to past leaders. That way they can add to credibility of new leader.
No, what we need is less Adobe.

Kthxbai.
What is the point then?
Can't agree more. Part of why I listen to the podcast "We have ways of making you talk" is the host's nuanced view of WW2 history and historiography.
So, I am interested in your specific examples, and they may counter what I am about to say.

So simplistically, we can plot most companies on a boring 2x2 grid
management v technical. With bad management (say culture, communication, inspiration as a catch all for management) and bad technical in the bottom left and great management and great technical t the top.

And if you take a person from the top right and put them in the bottom left they will by comparison look awesome.

But no-one on HN is going to say I am a 10x coder because I say

- review SQL stmts and add appropriate indexing
- run a profiler over the code base to optimise for hot spots
- stop half the pointless reporting meetings so people can actually work
- add in test suites
(or do the rest of the Joel 12 tests)

But those things will have outsized results, as will fixing product management etc.

Just playing a standard game will have outsized results in some quadrants.
wait, you are a 10x programmer and don't have a public github profile?
Because humans perceive temperature in terms of radiant heat, perceptual comfort is different from gauge temperature.

I'm not sure how, but our smart thermostat intuits this to adjust to our comfort, not just a temperature.

Because of our climate, it's also convenient to program our fans to run at certain intervals, control for a set point for humidity, or to base behaviors off of other sensors (air quality, etc). Conditioning air isn't just for maintaining a temperature, and most traditional thermostats, while not ineffective, are completely unable to account for these things.
Thanks for sharing. I think plenty of people get into these situations. They are tough to recognize, and even harder to act upon. I respect your thought about recovery, its been almost a year since I left my scenario, I've had to learn slowly how to forgive myself for not being able to get back up to 110%. You'll get there at some point but all those years in a bad situation do take a toll, be patient with yourself and celebrate every step of progress. (like the .5 lbs I lost this week!)
I bought a basic b&w two-sided laser printer in 2011 for this purpose, and it's served me extremely well over the years. You can then take the stack of pages to a store like Staples and they will bind it for you for a few dollars.

I got the Brother HL-2270DW and I think they still make it. They even publish official Linux drivers for CUPS! Just make sure to get the extended toner cartridges (TN450), the regular ones are a ripoff.
Which of course is a lie to over-exaggerate their influence -- if you add up the populations of the 12 counties on their map it's only 210k people, and obviously not everyone in those counties agrees with these stupid performative measures, so some number well under 200k is likely the real figure.

Malheur: 31k

Harney: 8k

Lake: 7k

Klamath: 68k

Grant: 7k

Baker: 16k

Wheeler: 2k

Jefferson: 24k

Sherman: 2k

Morrow: 12k

Union: 26k

Wallowa: 7k

https://www.oregon-demographics.com/counties_by_population

It'd likely end up like Brexit anyways - these areas don't appreciate just how much tax money is spent supporting them and their "independent" lifestyles. Changing their allegiance to a poorer, smaller state would result in a much lower quality of life for them.
I can only imagine. It amazed me how many great people you’d talk to and the company just squandered their efforts.
Yes, the latter has a big guilt factor involved which for me, weighs me down heavily.
Echo company motto in the VTCC.
This is the answer here. I believe iOS wins the US but world wide Android has a 72% market share.
I find the Bell Labs phenomenon fascinating. This book highlights some of the fascinating parts and one of my favorites. It goes in more detail about the video phone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idea_Factory.
Open source 5G in a box uses 16 core AMD processor
I’ve had the opposite experience: you don’t know what you got until is gone.
I've been in that situation a few times, and was always proactive about moving on before losing a job.

After I quit my second job (41 years ago) I felt a tremendous relief that I did not immediately understand. Things had gotten worse there over time, and like a frog being slowly brought to boil, I did not realize how bad it had become until after I left.

It's usually pretty easy to see the signs that your future is limited, and that is the time to start looking for a new position.

In the end, it's only a job, and your life is far more important.
I wish I could triple-upvote this.
Google is the best example w.r.t to PPP imo
Can't wait until individual-level price discrimination, so that when you get a raise at work, 80% of it will be eaten by everything suddenly getting more expensive.

So far it's just digital goods, but there's no reason grocery stores won't try the same.
This definitely sounds like a failure in the system in your area. Here (PNW) any first responder (but not LE) can _request_ airlift. Specifically in my county:

> Any field provider may request air transport via [our 911 dispatch]. An ALS (Advanced Life Support/paramedic) upgrade is required. Transport necessity and destination shall be determined by the ALS provider in consultation with the medical control physician on duty.

"if this person had internal injuries and destabilized during flight"

Well, in that case, bluntly, the choice of transport probably isn't the biggest concern. Secondarily, our protocols also discuss transportation by ground to a lower tier facility that's close to provide some stabilization before air transport to an appropriate facility.
I hate that I laughed at this. Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. See also: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-01-unsafe-rust.html
They don't do it _at all_?
ChatGPT Stole Your Work. So What Are You Going to Do?
Jami
It's never too late to start over. The key is to just START! Find something you're interested in and dig in and work towards it every day!
> Humans long to be needed.

Between personal survival and tribal survival (a sort of partial gene survival pattern) It makes a lot of sense.

until recently (and even currently in some places). If you do nothing you freeze, starve, and fail to attract a mate for procreation.

Until recently if you were not a net contributor to the tribe, you risked being ejected.

We likely have hardwired circuits that ensure we are actively contributing (ie needed).
PostgreSQL doesn't have unsigned integers.
So by this logic do we let Boise join Oregon at the same time?
You probably don't want this (assuming you live in these states). If you thought Brexit was a mess, this would be 10x
I've run Linux on a series of Dell laptops (same model, different versions), all with i7 processors. There's no appreciable difference running 32GB RAM over 16GB, but there is an obvious difference for many proc intensive tasks between 8GB and 16GB.

I'm not saying you couldn't live with 8GB, but I'd strongly recommend 16GB.
Centralized exchanges provide a lot more essential facility than fiat to bitcoin conversion. In particular, they provide acceptable transaction fees and acceptably fast transaction turnaround time.
I love the theory about four types of luck.

Blind luck: You're walking and find money on the ground.

Luck of activity: You go walking a lot, if there's money on the ground you're likely to walk by it.

Luck of optimism: You know you're lucky, so you're always looking for confirming evidence. If you walk by money you're likely to notice.

Luck of eccentricity: You don't walk along the same paths as other people. If there's money on the ground, you're likely going to be the first to walk by it.
I’ve played Squad since the first day of early access. And I played Project Reality long before that. I have mixed feelings. I understand a game needs to receive funding to be continually updated. I’m fine paying some more money for new factions or maps. I’ve definitely gotten my money’s worth out of Squad. I just worry this is going to be exploited to introduce non-immersive content the majority of the community doesn’t want. The creator of Squad, Offworld Industries, received a large investment from Tencent recently. Perhaps this is a product of that event.
> quality of life empirics suggest the industrial revolution was a benefit anyway. [citation needed]

I'm not trying to stuff AI back into Pandora's box. It's here, and it's coming. It can be a really great thing, or it can be catastrophic. So I mostly agree with your last point. But it we're going to talk about learning from our mistakes, the industrial revolution gave us The Jungle, and Amazon, and the obliteration of The Amazon.

Things didn't work out for the best; many of them worked out horribly. And things that did work out did so because the road was paved with human bodies (and tens of billions of nonhuman bodies).
I don't know if you're American or not but that's a common strategy to select higher quality candidates for your side whilst selecting the lowest possible quality candidate for the opposing side via the primary process. That said, that's not always the case and you could absolutely be right.
Even spam can originate in Gmail. There’s no reason not to scan everything.
Capitol Order by Clara E. Mattei.

It's very well written and the research into the actual memoranda from the period she is discussing is very eye-opening. It is also, unfortunately, quite depressing.
It has much more white space compared to IntelliJ IDEA or Visual Studio.
I had never heard of this book before, now I definitely want to give it a try.

As an aside, isn't type driven development how everyone codes naturally in statically typed languages? Whether it's Ocaml or Java, I feel like I try to get the types defined, then put on music and turn my brain off and just line the types up (much moreso in Ocaml than in Java).
State law in the state where I live defines the unorganized militia without regard to sex.

At least the 7th circuit agrees with you, (United States v. Meza-Rodriguez) even if there are other federal appeals circuits that don't. So this is something that will likely go to the Supreme Court eventually.
While not relevant to google, it is very difficult for me to sympathise with C suite with articles like this one[1] showing up.

[1] https://nypost.com/2023/01/19/microsoft-held-sting-concert-i...
This is an odd take. QI can only expand as far as the courts allow it - because you can challenge it in court (and it is challenged often).

QI allows government employees to do a lot of things - except violate your real rights (provided by the Constitution and/or laws passed by Congress).

If you do not like how QI has developed over the years - then it will require either A) Congressional Law or B) SCOTUS decision to change it.

None of this has anything to do with what this thread was about.

Just because you are unhappy with some legal tool, doesn't mean SCOTUS is derelict or something. That's just absurd... and demonstrates a lack of understanding of both our judicial and legislative systems.
i certainly feel for the problems people have in this regard, but it can't possibly be limited to one software package. Clearly any US based product is going to incur the same expense, and as such, Adobe products add no greater egypt tax than any other US product. Now perhaps the number of US products needed for purchase in egypt is small, and this is a big example, but Adobe isn't doing this to people, at least not in a targeted way.
You were already in grad school? Seems like a great time to go back! Now that you have work experience the grad program will be more meaningful, and after you finish, you will have a whole new set of jobs open to you.
Why not move on? I know that right now the economy is not exactly in a good shape, but what you are going through right now is worse.
I dont mean established codebases. I mean if I ask you to build a web server in Rust how quickly do you have it up? What are those steps? I can have a Django or ASP .NET project up insanely quicker for example. Heck I can have a Go net/http project up quicker than all the above just cause of muscle memory since that package has not changed a whole lot in years, which adds to the value of Rust having an extension to their stdlib that is maintained by them.
I learned to code (properly) at around 29, got a Software Engineering degree at 32. I'm 36 now, and I run a solo consulting business. It's a business in the sense that I serve some really large customers (up to Fortune 500), hire people per project, have a sales pipeline and other structures built, but it's just me.

If I've learned one lesson throughout these years, it's that the skills that truly buy your freedom are persuasion and sales. Your technical skill or the product you sell are somewhat relevant (there needs to be good demand/supply dynamics, etc.) but secondary.

I am a technologist at heart and have thousands upon thousands of hours of learning ahead of me but if I had to pick one skill essential for my survival, it would be sales.

Selling is human, universal, and potentially lucrative. There's a lot of potential for turning into a fucking weasel, but one can simply avoid that by not being a fucking weasel.

You saw terrible sales-type executives, it doesn't need to be like that. You can choose to pick a humanist stance towards it; at its heart it's about learning about people's deepest problems and finding solutions for them. You can find good people, good teams and good products or services to sell, even if they're modest to begin with, and build from there. Yes it's hard to find those conditions, but nothing is easy in life - a lot of technology, for example, is an absolute tire-fire.

If none of this jibes with you, maybe project management could also work. Reframe all your experience as "project management", find a domain that you find palatable and is somewhat accessible. Get a PMP certification. Congrats, you're now officially a project manager. It sounds bad because of how easy it can be to intrude the profession (and I'm being particularly facetious about it), and some PMs get a terrible rep because they truly are terrible, but precisely this is a possible aspect of differentiation for you: you will take your job seriously and display the utmost professionalism. You will be the total opposite of a terrible project manager. Your earning potential will not be as high as in sales, but in some domains, six figure salaries are feasible, and you could build a long term career with a progression for the thirty plus working years you have ahead of you.

These are just a couple ideas... Maybe others in the thread are better suited for you. The only thing I'm absolutely certain of is of your ability to turn things around. You're much younger and capable of a quick turnaround at your age (and later, but start now!) than you seem to realize.
It can be said, but does it happen as often?

This sounda pretty easy to be empircal about. What % of people who quit jobs regret it vs. regret not leaving sooner vs. have no regrets? Is it higher/lower in tech?
Joist: An idiomatic ORM library for TypeScript
and ~50-55% of the Oregon's land
The central problem will be inequality of all kinds, such as aptitude/motiviation/effort/etc. Eventually, in many businesses, you will get into a situation where some people will think they deserve more than others, and then politics will take over, and you have a similar problem to weaknesses in democracy.

That's othering. You're separating the "us" that are hard workers and successful from the "them" that are slackers.

But wealth inequality is an injustice specifically because it doesn't discriminate.

For example: in software development the hardest workers are penalized because the 10:1 or 100:1 leverage in their solutions often isn't recognized or rewarded. They might get paid twice as much as another dev even though decades of experience and orders of magnitude differences in problem-solving capacity separate them. That could be where your perception comes from, if you feel undervalued for your work and see others around you as entitled.

The hardest workers I've met in my life were generally the lowest paid. When I was moving furniture from 2001-2003, women automatically were paid $9/hr to pack boxes while the men were paid $10/hr to load them. Never mind that packing is a much more difficult job psychologically. I could pack about 30 boxes/day if I went as fast as I could, while a woman I worked with averaged 80. Almost 3 times my productivity for less pay and opportunity. And she had kids. And she didn't have the money to go to the dentist. And she never complained. Not like me.

Today 20 years later, costs have at least doubled while pay has stayed the same. I worry for her and the literally 100 million Americans who work harder than we do and live hand to mouth. It's a travesty of such proportion that it's become unthinkable. We literally can't overcome our own biases to think about it rationally. Our inability to empathize is the root cause of suffering.

So yes, I would make that loan all day. And nothing against you, I don't know you, I don't mean to be critical. I just feel that your argument is rooted in bias which somewhat ironically causes you to not entertain the insights I've gained acquiring my bias.

Edit: I may have misread your point. Do you mean that some people will think they deserve more than others and hoard the profits of the business? Sorry if I got that backwards or projected my context onto what you said.
I have a friend that just finally made this happen for himself with Big Blue. A zillion awesome things going on there, and he got stuck in a hole due to crappy mgmt. Onwards and upwards, without leaving the office he already worked in!
Completely relatable. I watched my dog eating a bone in the sunlit grass of my backyard happy and content, and realized how much smarter it is than me.

I was working my ass off pulling 18 hour days climbing the corporate ladder, trying to get wealthy and I was absolutely miserable. Happiness doesn't come from money, it comes from having everything you need in front of you. It took watching my dog gnaw a bone to make me realize that.

I punched out, went back to the startup world for way less pay working on problems I actually enjoy solving, at a pace that isn't detrimental to my health, and I have been much happier.

I also gave up a lot to do so - in time and money - but I have zero regrets. At least I learned a really valuable lesson about myself.
Such a quota would be very loudly illegal.
There's an entire class of corporate ownership that's employee-owned in the USA.

https://www.nceo.org/what-is-employee-ownership
I've had email messages from Google about Google products for which I have an active account using my Google email address get marked as spam by Google spam filters.
More plus one :) The secret is, once all us wayward youths find each other, we are more interesting than the typical advanced high school => ivy league => enterprise developer. I work with so many people who have never had a job outside of software development. It is all about work, except for that time they brewed their own beer for a couple months.

Kinda judgemental I know. Just know that you should never be afraid to re-invent yourself. There are more of us out there! Find us!
> Companies in the top quartile for racial and ethnic diversity are 35 percent more likely to have financial returns above their respective national industry medians.

Falsely equivocating correlation and causation is really telling.
> Not really, because there could be some other common factor that explains the difference and more than offsets the effect of absence of a minimum wage.

Ok, let's assume this is true. What is the argument that we should continue to focus on minimum wage rather than trying to pursue these "other common factors"?

Personally, I think the minimum wage approach has a number of problems. In addition to the evidence presented above, which shows that many countries have strong labor without a minimum wage, the minimum wage fails to pass even a basic logical test.

For instance, let's say we increase the minimum wage. In the best case, ignoring second order effects to demand, employment either stays the same or decreases due to the increased cost of labor. If unemployment decreases at all, labor overall is weaker, as higher unemployment favors the capital owning class. So the only way a higher minimum wage makes sense is if the second order effects of paying people more induce enough demand to lower unemployment. It just seems unlikely to me that we could magically induce demand in this way. The CBO seems to agree with this overall assessment. They estimate the impact of minimum wage increases on unemployment to be purely detrimental: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55681

Since you seem to support a higher minimum wage, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on the specific mechanisms is which a higher minimum wage would increase the leverage that labor has with the owners.
> It's not jarring. It expresses what is the subject that's being processed and what are additional parameters of the processing steps.

Only if the first parameter of the function is the sole subject & subsequent parameters are "additional". Which isn't the case in this example: all params are equal subjects.
I have been getting tons of PDFs which in the previews shows pictures of women. The subject and body of the emails just seems to be random words like in a seed phrase, and with some random single digit numbers. The email is sent from office, hotmail or gmail accounts and verifies. The TO field is also filled with other emails. I have been getting this for like 3 or 4 months, and report as spam does not work. In all the years I have had a gmail account it has never really been a problem.
Reminds me of when ARM cut salaries by a flat amount during the attempted NVIDIA acquisition.
You can find something better. 100%
Supervisory boards are super common in Germany. I am not sure if there is some legal requirement that makes this the case, but you see it at many large companies.