skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprise, surprise, money and "success" are not the keys to happiness.

Sorry to be a bit harsh, but it's both hilarious and sad to me that people like this exist (people, who, no less, have the gall to call other human beings "NPC"s yet would be helpless and have no idea what to do in life were it not for the world telling them to follow the facile pursuit of extreme wealth—hah!) It's no wonder software is infested with technology that is, at best a hyper niche, lucky market fit that really doesn't need to exist and will not be remembered in a decade and at worst of products that are outright societal ills.

Well, such is life when we encourage people to be narcissistic, mindless, money-seeking drones instead of socially aware, emotionally intelligent, and caring human beings.

I'm happy you are finally on the way to reflection OP, but it really does depress me that there are so many "intelligent" people that seemingly don't bother to think about or question the motives of the socioeconomic system at large and whether or not the life the system is suggesting they pursue is really a meaningful one. Apparently for some it takes getting incredibly lucky (and hard work, let's not ignore that, but luck is a key component here too) and incredibly rich to even begin to start engaging in the level of self-reflection that scores of nameless barflies, poets, and yokels were capable of hundreds of years ago.
That is transparently not the point of it at all. Musk in particular is a proven self-interested liar and there's no reason to believe his stated intentions here. It's another right wing campaign to dismantle the parts of the state that benefit anyone other than investors.
What is a forward deployed engineer? Clearly this isn't the case, but first thoughts were about strapping on some Kevlar and cleaning mines.
As a seller u don’t use it but as a buyer I go where the sellers are
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> Capital matters. Connections matter. Timing matters. Substance doesn't matter as much, sadly

Your conclusions are based on your own stereotypes - I'm not surprised that you feel your application experience validates your own stereotype.

You seem to not know anything about their selection criteria, so you can't jump to conclusions on their criteria based on your sample of one.

I would guess: (1) the DOGE guys want business people, and (2) the guy knows how to talk the right language and how to sell himself.

I am of course presuming you are not running your own business and that you perhaps don't have the same level of skill in marketing yourself.
Me too! I can understand why many/most folks might not have a lot of sympathy for formerly highly paid tech workers tho.

Personally, even for the not-so-highly paid tech workers, if you're complaining about "some foreigner willing to do it for less", you don't get a lot of sympathy from me. If they can do it, and are willing to do it for less, good on them!

Complaining about less well off folks coming and taking our jobs seems so Un-American. I'd be upset to lose my job, no doubt. But I'd be in good company.

I know there are a lot of folks eager to tell me how naive/ignorant I am, but the bottom line is that I'm allergic to entitlement.
What if I'm a junior++ dev?
They (or some other hypothetical company) might have some personally identifiable information (maybe in messages between users) or at least they might not know for sure that they don’t. We could at least imagine a company where the due diligence required to hang on to and continue serving up the info ethically isn’t free.

There are companies that have a forum, but it just seems to be a best-effort mostly community driven thing, or at least it isn’t tied to any paid product. It would be a shame, IMO, if they couldn’t offer that without signing up for some perpetual obligation. Even if it is small, somebody has to have an eye on it.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

FSF address this issue directly. GPL is basically fighting fire with fire.
The people running it have track records we can assess, and have signaled their goals and in some cases stated them outright. This is simply judgement.
I'm far from rich, but my life is good and I love capitalism. So, I'm feeling pretty congruent.
In Seattle FB marketplace for cars is almost entirely dealer spam and totally useless. It totally depends on location.

Craigslist died for cars because you have to pay to post now
Another comment mentioned using a linter to prevent 'console.log' from being mergeable in a PR, and this is exactly the kind of approach I'd take. Preventing an invalid state from existing is a pretty useful principle.
As a counterexample, all of my bosses for the last ~10 years have been existing coworkers who accepted a promotion to Lead, and some of them moved further up the management ladder after that. Every external hire has been at least two levels above me.
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> I’m doing part time consulting, mainly for people I worked with in the past who have started companies, just to scratch the tech itch

How do you pick you hourly rate? If a friend of yours of the past came to you and asked you to consult for him, and your friend offered you say $80 USD per hour, would you find it offensively low? For someone who doesn’t have a lot and wants to hire consultants for their small projects, I think offering $80 USD per hour is not bad. But I’m curious to know how that amount feels to a potential consultant if the consultant already had a lot. Or do you prefer taking a percentage of shares in your friend’s company as pay? Or something else?
Never loan money to friends is like “having money 101.” You can gift it or you can invest it with appropriate caveats given to any external investor, but never lend it.

This is common advice because it turns good relationships bad, that manifests as viewing former friends as shysters
Yep. I don't understand why the technological community accepts essentially sociopathic tendencies as long as your idea (regardless of what that idea is) is rewarded by the capital system. It's pathetic.
Those steering the ship have track records. I don't see anything prejudicial about evaluating the leadership of a government group w.r.t. their previous merits and shortcomings.
When you name your enlightened government-saving organization after a memecoin you own a mountain of, only bootlickers are going to think you're in it for altruistic reasons.

This is similar to elon's tendency to dump boatloads of money in politics to beat the people he claims are cheating by... dumping boatloads of money in politics.

If he wants any of this to be taken seriously by anyone other than his horde of bootlickers he needs to make "earning people's trust" a priority, even when it's opposed to his own interest. Instead he acts as though he's entitled to the public's trust because (he's sure) he's such a good guy, and he's (he's sure) actually acting in their interest. Doesn't work that way. Trust is earned by listening to people and by taking seriously what you hear from them—not by egoistic paternalism.

Furthermore, these business people constantly talk in terms which reflect basically-wrong beliefs about how money works at a national level. A country is not a company. A dollar spent by a country can return to its coffers as taxes many times over, and this basic fact breaks any analogy between the two.
I suppose it must be a joke, but it's striking nevertheless how much clearer and better written this paper is. I absolutely hate these papers that have an abstract of "In this paper, we present a systematic, global, and longitudinal measurement study" and the conclusion of "In this paper, we have presented a systematic, global, and longitudinal measurement study". It's almost surreal that this, on the contrary, is not a joke, and the majority of papers are written in this idiotic manner.
Idk how you find anything, it’s almost all spam on fb. There is no way to filter it out either.
Does Ghostty support natural text editing like iTerm2 does?
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There could be a lot of factors involved in this.

Retirement might be, in a way, a clear point in life when you get to actually think about your own mortality and life coming to an end in the next few decades. That alone could have a major impact in people developing depression at retirement.

What the poster says might still be true, people are being defined by their work and when that's over there's a huge gap they don't know how to fill. This might very well be a criticism on the role of work in society.

Ultimately though, you're right, there's no need to insult people when thinking critically about this issue.
Oh fuck off. Just fuck off.
Assuming that you are correct, you have observed (a) one or more problems (b) a proximal cause of the problem(s) (c) a potential solution. Congratulations!

None of that can be said for making a facile observation about US government spending.
https://github.com/pluralitybook/plurality

https://github.com/gov4git/gov4git
I should had clarified my case a bit better. I am a writer. People that I don't know (or know very little about) contact me to invite me to book festivals, propose collaboration on some presentation, reach out to ask stuff about what I write, inform me about updates that I need to follow, coverage that I am included in or interviews that they would like me to give. There is no other way to facilitate this communication other than to have an easily discoverable profile on a social media platform. Could I do it any other way? Sure, I could print my email on my books or leave it to people to reach out to my publisher to get my contact info. But that adds friction. I could create a webpage for my work, but that means people have to visit it to stay up to date. I could create a newsletter, that I would have to keep up to date and that people would never check, alongside the other hundreds of newsletter mail they don't check.

On top of that I also follow other people's work, festivals, book fairs, interviews, publications etc. They also post everything on Facebook (some on Instagram as well). There is no other option to stay in touch with this circle of people if you are not on social media.

I dislike Meta and I agree that the social media have deteriorated considerably from what they supposedly promise to offer. But they are still better than the alternatives.
Yeah, I was going to comment that doing volunteer work in some form could go a long way towards curing what ills him. Surprised that that wasn't even mentioned in TFA.
I studied philosophy in college and grad school, mainly because I was raised extremely religious and couldn't figure out what was real and what was bullshit.

Every time I read something like this I think to myself 'just please go get a degree in academic philosophy.' It teaches you how to think.

The type of folks who were incredulous about the idea that someone would study something so useless and naval-gazing, I see many of them unsatisfied with life because they have taken the world as it comes, and haven't taken the time to read the existentialists, specifically the ones who wrote about success. I would recommend Tennessee Williams "The Catastrophe of Success": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catastrophe_of_Success

Understanding existentialism, understanding absurdism, these are really useful things to being able to live a satisfying life but in abundance and in a lack of abundance. My partner is really into yoga and meditation and stuff, and much of what I've read about buddism is basically just religious existentialism and absurdism.

All the best to the author, I hope you are able to do well. Life is hard, and success isn't always what we wanted.
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I've been on github for 10+ years and that's what I use stars for.
The problem is too many options and so he is stuck in analisys parallaisys. He could spend all is time trolling my posts to correct my spelling or start a company or ... so many options.
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Do you also look at charts? I look at charts. Charts fun charts not fun. Line go up down.
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H.L. Mencken

Wake me when a majority of actual US voters would pick someone based on their educational qualifications for the job.
ISPs are the splitting image of if not literally the same people as the RBOCs. They do essentially the exact same thing RBOCs did in '96 today. In '96 "give this signal to 456-7890", today I say "give this packet to 45.67.89.0.

Around '96, what people thought of as ISPs (CompuServ, Prodigy, AOL, etc) were the modern Googles and Netflix and Spotify and Hacker News. Now ISPs are far more like the RBOCs, managing the lines and handling the "switching" and enabling the box at my home to talk to the box at Hacker News.

Back then, AOL was my ISP. They modified my query for a keyword to give me informaation. This was on top of the lines SBC managed. Today, AT&T manages the lines I use to punch into a search engine to retrieve information. What is AT&Ts role today more like, AOLs or SBC? Think for yourself for two seconds on this one! It's an easy answer!

If anything, you throwing RBOCs into this strengthens the argument for reclassification of ISPs as telecommunications providers instead of information services. It's illogical to see otherwise.

Finally let me requote the standard this fucking court gave us and you tell me how this opinion makes any sense outside of just consistently saying "cOmMoN ParLaNcE" as some shield that prevents you from using your actual brain to understand words on the law.

> In short, an “information service” manipulates data, while a “telecommunications service” does not.

How is my ISP manipulating this data, right here, right now?! Please answer this!
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You don’t need $60m to do that.

I’ll bet literally every person here in the comments can do that.
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I’d hazard a guess that quite a few devs have at one point, been lumped with a db where someone pushed too much logic into it. Probably great for the one person who wrote it, and awful for everyone else.

Mystery triggers, unclear or badly managed stored procedures, opaque invariants. It’s not to say that all of these things are bad, but a certain level of DB complexity will naturally set off alarm bells for some devs.
> I really believe Zuckerberg is a lizard after all, I can't find any other sane explanation for this

The most likely explanation is that Zuck and others of his generation that have hit the infinite money glitch in tech have no interest in statesmanship, in helping the less fortunate in the real world. I say "of his generation" because even a jaded monopolist like Bill Gates shifted his interests to actual global challenges (not saying he's perfect though).

For Zuck, Musk, Dorsey, the Snapchat guys, it seems that every ounce of their industry, charisma and delusion is targeted towards maximizing their wealth and notoriety further.
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This is incorrect.

iTerm2 never enabled any AI features by default (it always required an OpenAPI key, which the user had to provide). The backlash was for including an AI related feature in the default build at all.

Following the backlash, I think they made it an optional plugin.
DOGE is BS.

Civilian bureaucrats - in fact pretty much all discretionary spending - are line noise in the federal budget.

By far the largest components of spending are Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and defence.

Cutting social security means that old people get less money in their retirement, no ifs, ands or buts. Good luck with that one.

By American standards, Medicaid and Medicare are pretty efficient. So any cuts are going to mean that either doctors get paid less or fewer health services are provided. Yes, politically, Republicans can get away with cutting Medicaid, but it’s the much smaller piece of
the pie compared to Medicare. Good luck with either one of the options above with Medicare.

As for defence, procurement is a giant money tree for defence contractors, but a large part of the reason why it remains a giant money tree for contractors is that they build plants in every single congressional district there is, so trying to apply some sanity to the defence procurement process is politically untenable. Beyond that, are you going to be the one to tell the Marines they don’t need their own aircraft carriers?

Of course, tanking the American economy by removing a significant chunk of its labor force (undocumented immigrants) and increasing costs (by putting tariffs on things) is just going to make the problem harder by crunching revenue.

The right of politics has forever claimed that they can painlessly cut taxes, and it’s always nonsense.
Not surprising for someone who describes post-acquisition colleagues as NPCs. They do have a modicum of self-awareness around wanting to be Elon, so perhaps there's hope. I'm only realizing now how empathy goes a long way in giving a sense of purpose.

It reads like the first act for a movie that can go in one of many directions: a drama about a middle-aged, coke-fiend Miami "baller"; a tragedy about a bad Ayahuasca trip that leads to a psychotic break; or a heartwarming romantic comedy about an asshole with a heart of gold who finds themself (and true love) in Hawaii, with a quirky, doe-eyed British tourist as the love interest.

Edit: curious to know that the DOGE has ramped up and staffed with SV geniuses to be set loose on complex systems with long feedback loops. The next four^w few years will be interesting.
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I'm in a similar boat. A UK bank thinks I'm one of their customers (someone with a similar name). The reply address is no-reply@ and I'm not about to call a foreign bank.
After you have the bookstore up and running, you could hire a few people to take care of daily operations. It would still be your bookshop, and you could drop by every now and then and just hang out in the store read some of the books, or you could even whenever you felt like getting more involved on some days tell your staff that they can take the day off if they like and they will still get their pay for the day and you’ll handle the customers and the register. I dunno, this is just how I imagine it could work. I’m not rich, and I don’t own any bookstore or any other kind of shop for that matter so maybe my idea here is off the mark.
thank you for posting this... and this is a common enough pattern (looking up previous HN threads on the same or related article) that I wonder if it's worthwhile to automate this.
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There are enough abuses, litter and other bad things you would contribute to if you climb it. I've concluded that a photo is all I need. I'll try to climb mt fuji which I understand is isn't abused - though I would double check that if I ever have opportunity (i'd have to live 2500 years for that to make it to the top of my todo list)
Using discretion or being modest isn't necessarily living a double life. I'm sure there are plenty of things you're not open about; that doesn't necessarily make you fake, does it?
Why? What’s the specific objection? E.g. Bezos’s “wealth” reflects his 9% ownership of Amazon multiplied by the fact that Amazon makes a lot of money. Presumably you don’t object to the idea of someone owning 9% of a company. That leaves the fact that Amazon is too big/makes too much money. If you’re making an antitrust argument just say that. I probably agree with you on that point!
We can see with current legal situation around AI learning and data scraping how companies and their lawyers has starting to work around the issue of not having data protected by copyright. The general alternatives to copyright seems to be TOS and contract law, except for Hollywood which went and drafted their own special law.

Downloading software from a server means you need to have access to that server, possible through an account. There is also a fair amount of precedence covering the enforceability of TOS and limitations of server access, especially when a company earn profit on intentionally ignoring them.

Contract law has its own issue, and copyright is generally seen as much easier to understand and enforce, but if contract law can be used to control how software and data is used after a user has downloaded it then it could be used for something like GPL.
Something to ponder when hearing those proud family stories…
Two words: make babies.

They will change your whole program, and for the better.
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So people say, I think they look and feel like crap compared to macbooks and thinkpads.
How about making DNS requests for everything you hover over to determine if it’s a URL? https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/iterm2-leaks-...
What line of cymbals? A? K? Something else? Zildjian make quality stuff but maybe you'd prefer either a different line of theirs or another brand entirely like Meinl or Sabian. You never break as many sticks and cymbals than when you're relatively new to playing, also.
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That was way more interesting than a couple of hundred words about unions had any right to be. Thank you.