skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're willing to accept small changes as a win in a fundamentally broken system (in the sense the incentives aren't aligned and there is no real accountability feedback mechanism) then the problem is you aren't cynical enough to attempt something drastic. I'd actually go even further and argue it's a form of being brainwashed, usually as a byproduct of effective propaganda. Going back to the example of private healthcare - I don't fucking care about small incremental changes when the system itself is still structurally broken. We need more cynicism about the status quo so people say "fuck this" and replace it with something better. And it's not even a complicated or abstract idea - literally every other 1st world country has solved this problem and laugh about how broken healthcare is in the USA.
The point is: what are you going to do if single-payer healthcare does not materialize in the US? You have many options; plotting a revolution, working for reform inside the system or impotently complaining on social media. What is actually workable for you?

The same goes for the article's author. Sounds like they're shocked—SHOCKED—that private companies are just out to make money, and don't actually have our best interests at heart. The real issue is that they bought into the fantasy in the first place. But now that the veil is lifted, how will it change your actual behavior in the real world? If it will have no effect, why let it get you worked up at all? If it will have an effect, go out and do it.
> Almost certainly organizational leaders do not form a homogenous block here. Some of the leaders proposing these RTO policies are intentionally disguising their true motivations by using indirect language because they know their true beliefs are socially unacceptable and they do not want to incur the social cost of honestly representing their motivations.

That's possible, yes. But I'm in as good as position as anyone to know, and as far as I can tell, that does not appear to be true of any of the people I'm interacting with. (I do agree with your preceding point, but that's a bit off-topic.)

> Rather than improve their accountability systems so that they can trust their workers more

Accountability trades off against other things, though. If it's by some objective standard, you run into Goodhart's Law almost immediately. If it's by subjective standards, you run into politics and personal biases (the exact biases you're concerned about, by the way!). It's this effect to "improve accountability" that leads to metrics on your git commits or programs that watch whether you're moving your mouse or stack-ranking or whatever else.

You could say "well they should improve their accountability to something not stupid" - sure, but organizational and managerial talent is limited. You don't run a business in an abstract ideal vacuum, you run it in a real world of human beings who are sometimes selfish, biased, petty, inattentive, stupid, egotistical, or any number of other things.

Given the practical fact that accountability has costs and is often done badly, avoiding the need for two much of it is not as unreasonable as it sounds.

> Hustle culture itself encodes a sense of superiority that serves as emotional and philosophical justification for the power of business leaders over their employees.

I agree with that, yes. Hustle culture is not a good thing. But buying into something dumb is different from malice or some deliberate effort to suppress workers.

> It is difficult to see any real moral difference between wanting to exercise power for its own sake and imposing uncompensated costs on employees to avoid doing the hard work of being a leader.

Even if there isn't a moral difference (and I think there is probably one, for reasons already described), there is a practical difference in the nature of the problem and the solutions to it.

> When leaders propose arguments for a policy that do not actually justify the policy

But I do think they justify it - or at least, that a reasonable person could think that they do. I think you're sort of assuming management of spherical cows on a frictionless plane here, without any of the extremely messy business than comes with any organization involving a large number of human beings.
How to substitute lack of industry experience?
So does fission reactors. Modern French nuclear subs are powered by 48 MW reactors. They're still expensive to build and maintain.
The same way you did so before LLMs existed - you rely on in-class assignments, or take-home assignments that can't be gamed.

Giving out purely take-home writing assignments with no in-class component (in an age where LLMs exist), is akin to giving out math assignments without a requirement to show your work (in an age where calculators exist).

Many years before LLMs were ever a thing, I recall being required to complete (and turn in) a lot of our research and outlining in class. A plain "go home and write about X topic" was not that common, out of fear of plagiarism.
yes https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/index.html
Hardly. Tech is built into the future of every industry in the United States. We still have a runaway advantage with regard to innovation thanks to our tech industry - it impacts at the GDP level. Until that changes, the party is still going.
Ah, the British tax authorities have a solution for this! They declare that R&D is "an advance in overall knowledge or capability in a field of science or technology" and that an independent expert has to agree with that. This means, of course, quite little is legitimate R&D and proving it is often more effort than it's worth. (It's unconnected that the UK contributes relatively little to major tech advancements nowadays compared to the size of its economy.. ;-))
retiring early is not a goal only if you define your life through work. there are MILLION other things to do besides “playing golf with other retirees” (though that’s definitely more fun that working in a cubicle.

if your work defines you - great, keep on trucking. but having financial means to not have to work at early age (while you are still youngish and healthy) is probably one of the biggest goals any human on Earth can achieve
I'm not a contractor. I'm saying, if I were you, I wouldn't be pissing and moaning about the terms under which I'm being given $200k a year to drink smoothies and pretend to do engineering work.
It's american culture.

And it's corporate because linux is now corporate run. And all these things make sure that no volunteer will ever take part.
I'm not genX but I felt the same. Even as late as the late 00s there was still widespread optimism about what the internet would bring. By the late 10s that feeling was completely gone.
DrRacket (no space)
and yes https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/index.html
Do you have any suggestions on RSS readers?
I've been trying to find a good one, but many of the features I want are not written down somewhere.
In roughly decreasing order of priority, I'd like something:
* That doesn't automatically delete the items in your feed, either because you have too many or because it's been too long. Alternately, it could be set ridiculously high (by quick estimates, if it can handle 1 million items, that's enough to deal with 250 new items, every single day, for 10 years, so I'd say that would be high enough, and quite frankly, if I run up against that limit, I can probably delete some).
* Free, but that seems fairly incompatible with the first thing. Self-hosted, possibly?
* That has some relatively easy way of bypassing paywalls.
* That allows for manual tags (not just folders, because things can generally only go in one folder) of either feeds or articles.
* That seems relatively stable (not as big of an issue since it's fairly easy to migrate, but it would still be nice).

Do you have any suggestions?
Yeah this is my position. There are aspects of being in the office that I like. I loathe having to drive 45 minutes to get there, however.
I'm thirty something. How did my teachers engage me in doing math? How did they engage me in rote-memorizing the multiplication tables when portable calculators were already a thing, being operated by coin-cells or little solar panels?

Part of teaching is getting kids to learn why and how things are done, even if they can be done better/faster/cheaper with new technology or large scale industrial facilities. It's not easy, but I think it's the most important part of education: getting kids to understand the subjacent abstract ideas behind what they're doing, and learning that there's value in that understanding. Don't really want to dichotomize, but every other way kids will just become non-curious users of magic black boxes (with black boxes being computers, societal systems, buildings, infrastructure, supply chains, etc).
It's perfectly possible to collaborate remotely, but the casual contempt many of you display towards your coworkers shows that you do not play nice with others - remote or in person.
9elements Takes over Intel 1st Gen Xeon Scalable Skylake Support Within Coreboot
For me print debugging ist the best way to work on a script or code if i dont know when debugging is finished. Most debugging sessions (using a debugger) i ever did were very complex situation where i knew how to trigger the error. And while i am sure that you can save debugging sessions i just dont need another tool (to learn) and install on multiple computers where i test and run my code.
> Why do you think healthcare is tied to employment in the US?

Because if you would take THIS money from the people directly, they will be very unhappy.

> Why do you think minimum wage in the US has not gone up in decades?

Minimum wage is eaten up by an ever-increasing amount of regulations

> Why do you think 2 weeks leave is normal in the US?

Otherwise, the minimum wage would have to be lowered

> Why don’t more Americans travel overseas?

It seems like because they already live in the best country
Clearly you have zero idea about remote working and remote management. I've been working 15 years remote and 5 years manage/mentoring. The junior is as much as, if not more, responsible for the growth as the manager/mentor is responsible. You can drag a horse to river but can't make it drink and all that.

Workers have all the right they need.

Don't like RTO? Leave, find a job which allows WFH or go start your own company.
yes https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/index.html
it includes the picture language used in SICP.
The trouble of determining current ARM64 ISA version on Windows on ARM
So how shall a launcher application determine which AArch64 ISA level is available on Windows on ARM device?

Full story: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1gxnr85/determ...
Years before 2015 “the internet” for most people had been replaced by “social media” and its was pretty well understood that big tech companies now had a means and motivation to monetize our most toxic traits.

The optimism about the internet’s influence peaked when things were highly decentralized with personal websites, mailing lists, web rings, etc. it was hard to imagine an entity big enough that could manipulate “all of the internet”.

Eventually centralizing forces like google/yahoo/myspace made things much more usable, for a while, until their hacker-ethos were overtaken by an MBA-ethos.
I don’t think it was about stupidity it was about desire, they would not want to come here because it’s just talking to other nerds on bbs. But bandwidth increased and porn and flash games opened the floodgates.

I guess the mistake was that nerds assumed there were more people like them, or that introducing people into their world would change the people and not have the people change the environment.
Do you want to de-escalate or make flame wars?
Yes, 90's me was definitely naive, and 00's me too. The "do no evil" years.
It's not that simple. If all I have is a hammer, I don't view everything as a nail; I see first what other uses my hammer can have, then if a hammer won't do the job I seek or create another tool that will.
Funny, I thought it continued a while and died with social media.
From my experience mentoring junior designers Ive learned to set the utopian belief that "its all for the user" is a matter of perspective. A stakeholder is also a user and their utopia is different from any preconceived ideal user an upset designer might have. It can be more constructive to enable the continuation of and building up of new fantasies rather than see it as a doomsday scenario where the good times have ended. they never existed and they always existed its just how you look at it. solve problems and harmonize the multi-utopias :)
It would still happen with or without the internet, so long as there are video cameras. First is back-alley vhs or cd's then dvd's. Take video cameras aways and you have secret handshake underground viewing parties. I've finally come to terms with the idea that: humans are gonna human. And it allows me to focus on the more positive things that have also come from the internet, because then you get to find the positive, kind ways that humans are gonna human.
Ok that's fair, sorry to be defensive.

But I actually think it's more inspired by people coming from the NodeJS ecosystem than people coming from C++.
I have found no good way to smaller authors. I've seen a few web rings that give me cool but completely random websites. HN is the best I've got so far.

A curated and subscribable list of smaller authors categorised by area, where the sites aren't wall-gardened and laiden with trackers, would seem to fit the bill.
Thanks. There's no current plan to turn this into an actual game but I agree it would neat.
There are several classes of problems that corporations are not well-designed to solve. Corporations couldn't and didn't end slavery, they couldn't and didn't end child labor, they couldn't and didn't create the 40 hour work week, they couldn't and didn't prevent our rivers from turning into toxic sludge, they couldn't and didn't prevent our air from turning into unbreathable smog, etc. etc.
Ha, this is so true. I loathe having to commute into the office, but the only thing worse would be doing that on a bus.
I think it's worth recalling why that optimism, at least in part.

Information wanted to be free, for the first decade of the web's existence. Projects like Linux, Wikipedia, the www itself. These open, free ways of doing things were proving a case for optimism.

They were so much faster & better than corporate alternatives that you couldn't help but expecting that open projects had the competitive advantage.

Meanwhile, online culture was very different. There was room for morons and blowhards, touts, spammers and occasional shill... but those people didn't run the show.
> Pray what kind of "environmental destruction" putting solar panels in the desert will cause that shadows actually digging the soil for coal?

Habitats of desert animals will be destroyed and they will go exinct. (But humans don't live in the desert and desert animals hold no cultural significance, so who cares, amirite?)

> The fact that a coal plant emits more radiation than a nuclear plant

Irrelevant. Chernobyl was the best thing to happen to Europe's biodiversity in centuries.
>I want AI to do my dishes and laundry

Buy a dishwasher and a washing machine.
I'd still recommend it, the Trump mentions are pretty marginal. I think the core message is pretty apolitical.
In software, building bug-free software is almost never the goal. There is a constant juggling act of tradeoffs between time, requirements, and tech debt.
Wringing our hands so much about the art as Art. This thing in general where people feel the need to validate or justify AI art in the same terms one does other art is like the antithesis of anything you could remotely call the avant garde. To, in fact, take surveys about it, calculate conclusions... To care about what people think at all, about what they simply see with their retinas, as if art is somehow for them. It all smacks of precisely the kind of thing he hated, or at least tried to distinguish himself from.
The goals are very different. It was like this also before AI.

The goal in school is to learn things. To learn to write you can't just copy an article from a paper and say it is yours. You have not learned.

At work, the goal is to get things done.
Thanks! Sorry there's currently no plan to make it open source at the moment.
I understand the sentiment, but why does every discussion that liberals have about the state of the world have to revolve around Donald Trump? Donald Trump was president for 4 weak years, during which his entire intelligence apparatus was sabotaging him, the administrative state was ignoring him, and people who worked in his administration were lying to him and intentionally distorting his orders, then writing op-eds about it in the NYT. Meanwhile, the same people who ran the country before him ran it during him, and he's basically appointing them again because he's a dimwit and doesn't know anyone else.

This constant casting off of blame onto celebrity enemies is insidious. It's an acknowledgement that the Western upper-middle class will never change their lifestyles or values, just spend all of their "political" time looking for scapegoats, ceremonially killing them, and patting themselves on the back for it (want a Pulitzer? A Nobel?)

That's why Trump was at first revitalizing, because he was a sacrifice that refused to die, immunizing them from the fact that their invested wealth doubled during his presidency and the one that followed. The fact that he overcame their frowny faced disapproval and their willingness to abuse the legal system has left them in complete disarray: could it be that the problem is that they've become ridiculously wealthy while working increasingly parasitic jobs, rather than that tech billionaires are assholes? You work for them.

And none of them deregulated telecommunications, none of them deregulated the banks, none of them made at-will employment the standard. They're not the reason that I had three educational tv channels as a child, and now, for the past couple decades, the only one left in PBS has been fundraising with Deepak Chopra lectures. You've all become libertarians unless your lifestyle or aesthetic is bothered in any way, then you become authoritarians. Or in other words, you're narcissists.

The outsourcing of morality to voting and donating to Democrats is over. The elevation of that private group to a moral authority based on the fact that they were vaguely nice to black people from the mid-60s to the mid-80s, and that being drilled into every school age kid, has to be overcome. The party hasn't broken with Reagan, via that likely rapist, definitely sexual harasser that they platform at every convention, one that took a break from campaigning to execute a retarded black man. You shouldn't have ever left it to them, you did it because it was easy. It's not morality if it doesn't involve sacrifice.

Also, ask yourself the question: what do you do? Are you contributing to anything net positive in the world, or are you simply a facilitator for a middleman who lives through extracting value from the defenseless? Are you double-dipping by spending the cash of the people you make social capital out of publicly whining about?
There's also Proxmox as hypervisor, it's free software and very easy to install.

Recent versions even have SDN builtin
Design has died on PC cases.
So the big car companies are forcing me to buy their product? It does not feel that way. Seems more like it is people in their capacity as voters and consumers which are driving things this way.
Yes advertisers want control, wouldn't you? But it has nothing to do with "free speech". Try "good speech". Elon reduced the amount of subjective "good speech" and increased "bad speech". Advertisers have the freedom to do what they want. Elon, on the other hand, has absolute control of the words on his platform.
I am still really happy about what tech has brought us and how comfortable life is in this day. OP brought out all sorts of negative examples, but so could I bring out equal amount or more of positive examples on what the tech has brought us.

I'm excited for what the future brings, and I'm still amazed by how sudden jump there was of ability of LLMs. It's still crazy to me.
At a previous employer we had a pair on call for each of: front end, back end, and infra. We had on-call lasting from Monday midday - Friday midday. Handing off to a "weekend on-call" from the same pool of people from Friday midday to Monday midday. Weekend on-call paid 100 per day, weekday on-call paid 50 per day. You were generally expected to take normal time "off" (but still on call) if paged off hours. Many people would still work if it was just a blip (rare).

I thought this was a pretty good system and despite the cycles being shorter, we had enough engineers to fill a rotation pretty well so that at most you were on call once a month, alternating months between weekend and weekday on-call cycles.

I still do not enjoy being forced into on call and wish I could opt-in. We traded weeks a lot but with smaller rotations or really finicky paging its awful. I still have a sinking feeling in my gut when I hear the work phone ringtone from somebody else's phone in public, and murphy's law definitely applies to being on call -- you always get paged the minute after your beer gets delivered at a restaurant.
I'm not sure about that. Very little was digital back then. It was far easier to claim lack of earnings back then than it is now, even with the high rates
> I am not sure if they're literally reading all the HN comments or doing that in some automated

i use f5bot[0] and have notifications set up for "supabase". it helps that supabase is a unique word so I don't get many false-positives.

[0] https://f5bot.com/
Can you mention a recent time they were polled and make this incredibly clear?
Amazing, as the developer of this game, I wasn't even aware that you could make it under 3 minutes!
Russia could bring a tactical nuke and use that with no warning. If they want to nuke Ukraine they can do it without "nuclear class" missiles.
Okay, and does your UI screen have some quiet bug that won't come up for a year? Does it introduce some unnecessary tech debt? Did the engineer implementing it notice some accessibility or consistency issue that wasn't caught by the product team? Does it account for some weird edge case? Is it performant? Does it handle IE6 or whatever? Did it incorporate some package with a security vulnerability?

And why Feb 1? Who decides what the reasonable timeline is? How sure are you that they aren't playing political games? How do you measure their performance? Did the engineer abandon some on-call thing to get it done? Did they pull a more senior person off of their job to help? Did the manager who gets blamed for all this choose who to hire?

Management isn't binary in this way, and when managers try to make it binary, a lot of people (rightly) complain. And I'd bet that many of the people who complain about that are exactly the same people who are here arguing for remote work (not least because I am in both groups).

Quantifying work to such an extent that you can detect any slacking or poor-quality work is one of the fastest ways to make it horrible for employees. Unscrupulous employees abuse Goodhart's Law to hell and back, scrupulous ones get punished for doing important work that didn't make it onto the quantified metrics, and work becomes more about covering your ass than it is about getting stuff done.