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This is the shittiest thread I've seen in a while https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21855280
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This thread is like the HN equivalent of getting ratioed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21865065
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Dec 23, 2019 23:05
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Who wants to read an HN thread on homelessness? Of course you do! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21900429
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Dec 28, 2019 20:59
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Among the HN labor aristocracy, syndicalists are starting to outnumber libertarians https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21923085
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By labor aristocracy I meant specifically HN posters who are presumably engineers, not the cafeteria workers the OP is about. There does seem to be greater pro-union/anti-management/anti-VC sentiment on that site these days
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Sapozhnik posted:On hn. Randroid shitrobot central. I've been saying it for a while now. The winds are shifting. The current tech boom is slowing down, layoffs are rising, and people are starting to get pissed at the dilution of their shares into utter toilet paper. There was a thread a few months ago where some VC dumbass posted a fluffy praise of joining startups over larger companies, and the comments were just angry rebuke after rebuke by devs who've been burnt by startups too many times. Even if the response there was to "screw your startup scam, I'm joining FAANG", it's at least a furious response at the grifter nature of the industry. The thread about the Mondragon Corporation and co-ops in general had a pretty positive response. All of this is still within a technocratic-entrepreneurial capitalist framework, but at least the cultists are starting to throw away the Flavor Aid. There's been big threads about the shittiness of burnout culture, impossible whiteboarding interviews, and open offices.
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ogre_codes 57 days ago [-] My big mistake? Not being buddies with Peter Thiel in 2003. Don't make my mistake, go back in time and be buddies with Peter Thiel in 2003. Just the fact that he had a buddy who could cut him a check for $70,000 before his startup succeeded says a whole lot about the situation he was in. If you have a buddy who tosses around this kind of cash, your options are different from the options available to the overwhelming majority of us.
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PCjr sidecar posted:play cravath games, win capitalism prizes I mean, if they even get that far. Extreme sleep deprivation + coke/upper abuse required to keep up -> suicide or brain damage is a steep price for a job even for some Long Island trust fund kid. You can even ignore the moral component for a second. Doesn't this sort of working condition show how incredibly stupid and inefficient the bosses are? Ditto for hospital workers who work through really long shifts. You're tasking people with vitally important jobs and expecting them to be able to perform perfectly throughout really long hours, putting themselves and the work at risk. Why does management do that, does it truly save them money.
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Feb 19, 2020 22:54
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Now it's complaints on take-home tests https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22365441
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Feb 19, 2020 23:31
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Accelerationism by Accel Partners: bobbydroptables 0 minutes ago [] You and I have very different definitions of "sustainable". Absolutely nothing about the modern global economy is "sustainable" for the planet. Infinite growth is not a realistic goal. We need to start putting a sustainable planet above a sustainable income statement. Setting that aside, failing startups are actually great for the average Joe. You've basically sucked off enormous amount of capital from naive but rich investors and transferred it to the employees and local businesses where the company is based. Even consumers can benefit if prices are subsidized. Failing businesses also teach lessons about dumb capital and dumb managers. Smart capital and smart managers usually take notes. It's basically win-win all around except for whichever rube is holding the shares when the house of cards collapses, which, as I said some people have more money than sense.
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This is Goon/Redditor levels of DIY health solutions cachestash 7 hours ago [] You're all going to think I am a crazy, but I instead elected to tape my mouth closed with 3m tape right when I go to bed. This to me is superior and should be your first port. Not only did it fix my apnoea and huge lack of energy during the day, but also my chronic sinus issues that had plagued me for years. Its also a lot cheaper, much easier to use / travel with and gets me into a good habit of nose breathing during the day. A CPAP machine is still reinforcing the poor habit that may well have contributed to your sleep abnormalities in the first place. Mouth Breathing. It costs $2 for a roll of 3m tape, so it's not like it costs a lot if its really not working for you. Mouth breathing is horrendous for your health and well being. There is a good reason why it was ostracized in the past ("mouth breather" was an insult). It was a clear sign of poor health in an individual. It's one of the best unknown health hacks out there. https://askthedentist.com/mouth-tape-better-sleep/
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Maximo Roboto posted:I've been saying it for a while now. The winds are shifting. The current tech boom is slowing down, layoffs are rising, and people are starting to get pissed at the dilution of their shares into utter toilet paper. There was a thread a few months ago where some VC dumbass posted a fluffy praise of joining startups over larger companies, and the comments were just angry rebuke after rebuke by devs who've been burnt by startups too many times. Even if the response there was to "screw your startup scam, I'm joining FAANG", it's at least a furious response at the grifter nature of the industry. Looks like they're at it again. The marks are waking up. though again their response seems to be either join FAANG or start their own company https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198228
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this whole article seems to describe a Groverhaus-type mess https://dengarden.com/misc/The-Pitfalls-of-an-Underground-House 
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the labor aristocrats speak
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Eh like with previous union threads, there's a healthy amount of pro-unionization sentiment pushing back at the temporarily embarrassed unicorn founders
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mystes posted:Article: boy that thread is a wasteland
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Boy don't you love it when HN talks geopolitics Sinophobe: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dnautics (peep the post that goes "Tell your boss to buy a bug out spot") Russophobe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26341875
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mystes posted:lqet 43 minutes ago [–] That.. that's a cute folk etymology?
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DaTroof posted:this person makes me sad dioxazine posted:jade emperor in heaven, i don't know what to say if you can tolerate a 3 hour commute and act like it's a daily treat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4AoSBqY_GI
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the radiology thread was lulzy after a CTO/founder wandered in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27422610 TuringNYC 2 hours ago [] >> seismic interpretation here Strong disagree here. Lets put aside the math and focus on money. I dont know much about seismic interpretation, but I know a lot about Radiology+CV/ML. I was CTO+CoFounder for three years full time of a venture-backed Radiology+CV/ML startup. From what I can see, there is a huge conflict of interest w/r/t Radiology (and presumably any medical field) in the US. Radiologists make a lot of money -- and given their jobs are not tied to high CoL regions (as coders jobs are), they make even more on a CoL-adjust basis. Automating these jobs is the equivalent of killing the golden goose. Further, Radiologists standards of practice are driven partly by their board (The American Board of Radiology) and the supply of labor is also controlled by them (The American Board of Radiology) by way of limited residency spots to train new radiologists. So Radiologists (or any medical specialist) can essentially control the supply of labor, and control the standards of best practice, essentially allowing continued high salaries by way of artificial scarcity. WHY ON EARTH WOULD THEY WANT THEIR WORK AUTOMATED AWAY? My experience during my startup was lots of radiologists mildly interested in CV/ML/AI, interested in lots of discussions, interested in paid advisory roles, interested in paid CMO figurehead-positions, but mostly dragging their feet and hindering real progress, presumably because of the threat it posed. Every action item was hindered by a variety of players in the ecosystem. In fact, most of our R&D and testing was done overseas in a more friendly single payer system. I dont see how the US's fee-for-service model for Radiology is ever compatible with real progress to drive down costs or drive up volume/value. Not surprisingly, we made a decision to mostly move on. You can see Enlitic (a competitor) didnt do well either despite the star-studded executive team. Another competitor (to be unnamed) appears to have shifted from models to just licensing data. Same for IBM/Merge. Going back to seismic interpretation -- this cant be compared to Radiology from a follow-the-money perspective because seismic interpretation isnt effectively a cartel.
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Descendent 47 will avenge him
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the comments thread on the assassination of the Haitian prime minister is so bad
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this thread is funny to me because tonally it's very Reddit (people making easy, lame jokes and dorky sci-fi references) yet it's in the service of a good opinion. Guess we've gotten to a point where hating on Zuckerberg is just the common sense position to take and even hn is onboard with that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930791
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lmao I've never seen a more reddit/goony thread on hn and it's all aimed at owning Facebook and Zuck. Though I guess the news article itself is sci-fi, Zuckerberg wants to build his bastardized form of the metaverse from Snow Crash. radmuzom 1 minute ago [] I'd rather have JC Denton usher in the new dark age than allow this raving lunatic control more of our lives.
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lol this thread is going places https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28663221
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mrmcd posted:Yeah dang is also an Asian surname, we get it. It's okay to just admit your brain just read something wrong without bringing your weird hobbies and orientalism into it. The French invented Chinoiserie, they just can't help themselves.
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> tomc1985 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [] This sort of crap is why I left software. Niceness over competence. I didn't enter this (at the time) largely solitary profession to have all the best, juiciest parts of the job get taken over by these people-oriented idiots. There needs to be a revolution that returns programming back into the hands of solitary nerds working on sheer competence. More people need to care about the quality of the final output than whether or not the guy who wrote it is "a nice fellow". I feel like this is 'participation trophy' culture coming back to haunt us. Stop being so afraid of getting yelled at, anger is a part of life! > romanhn 5 hours ago | root | parent | next [] As an introvert who had to push himself to become one of those "people-oriented idiots", the reality you have to recognize is that software is ultimately about people. It is not written in a vacuum to make computers happy, there's generally a human (or a bunch of them) at the other end who will be deriving value from it. Working competently to solve the wrong problem is not how successful software is written. And the chances of solving the right problem without talking to people are, frankly, slim. There will not be a revolution that eschews the people aspects, the industry has evolved (yes, the opposite of devolved) beyond that. Walking around calling people idiots and being generally angry is not going to win you any trophies either. > tomc1985 5 hours ago | root | parent | next [] Externally, with customers, sure. I agree that we are ultimately doing this for people. But internally, I do not think that having requirements filter through ever-growing and increasingly specialized teams is a net positive. Early in my career I worked directly with stakeholders and shareholders, and I was empowered to build and deploy things that solved their issues, often from scratch. And I did exactly that, and it felt great! When I quit, I worked mainly with my product manager, who in turn interfaced with god knows how many people, and only receive tasks after they were parceled out and dispatched to me via JIRA, where I could only see a small part of the picture and I was held to arbitrary metrics on performance. Things were much better when we programmers were a weird and mysterious rainmakers that the higher-ups didn't understand. This newer, more gentrified profession is ... a lot less enjoyable to work in. and > endisneigh 5 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [] I can't tell if this post is sarcastic or not, haha. What are you doing now? > tomc1985 5 hours ago | root | parent [] Not sarcastic. I am now software-adjacent, working solo. Got sick of the people aspect and the fact that my employer takes 99% of the value I create and then forces me to practically beg for a 5% raise each year gently caress that industry. I became a programmer because I love computers, not people
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one more- > vlunkr 5 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [] I'm pretty sure this will hold true in my field where teamwork is required. If you're not nice, people won't want to talk to you, if you're not part of the communication chain, your value as a team member drops. No part of this has anything to do with software. > tomc1985 5 hours ago | root | parent [] The thing is software doesn't have to be a team activity. It goes against the current grain where everyone seems to want to build large teams of sort-of-competent nice guys, but you can have one or two really smart guys, and pay/treat them super well, and you can get an entire product out of them
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tombert 6 minutes ago | prev | next [] This isn't a joke; I had actually scheduled a lunch with Lowtax for this Saturday. Despite a (let's call it) checkered past, I was extremely excited to meet him, since he's been a huge influence to my sense of humor and Something Awful was really important to me as a teenager. ------- I had found him on LinkedIn a few weeks ago, and simply sent a message explaining that I'm a fan, would love a chance to buy him lunch and chat about Something Awful and Gaming Garbage. To my surprise, he responded back with "sure, I'd be up for it". I responded back with "How does early December sound to you? something on the order of December 11?" His response was "poo poo I dont even know if I'll still be alive then". This response was a little weird, but this isn't exactly "off brand" humor for Lowtax, so I ignored it. I then say something to the effect of "how about something along the lines of November 13?", which he said was better. He then said "and you have my permission to stab me". Again, not off brand for Lowtax. I bought a plane ticket to Kansas City, was ready to fly out this friday. But I had this deep feeling in my stomach that what he was saying wasn't just a joke. It's pretty well documented that he's been depressed, and I dunno, upon re-reading his messages a hundred times I got a dark feeling that these might be kind of bad omens. What exactly do I do with this? I discussed it with my wife and a friend, who weren't sure what the best solution, and I ultimately decided not to say anything. I figured I'm just some dork who stalked him on LinkedIn, and I was afraid that if I said anything he would think I'm weird and cancel our lunch date. And now this poo poo happened. He finally did it, and now the thought keeps playing in my brain of "what if I had said something a few weeks ago?" I know I don't owe him anything, but I can't help but have this repeated feeling of "I valued an opportunity to meet my man-crush more than I valued someone showing suicidal tendencies," and it makes me feel downright rotten. That's not the kind of person I want to be, and it makes me feel legitimately sick that that's how my brain decided to work. At some logical level I know none of this is my fault really; realistically even if I had said something, I doubt much would have changed, and I doubt I had enough there to get him committed or anything, but there's a difference between logically knowing something and feeling something. As it stands, I think there's a reasonably good chance that I will feel partly responsible for this for the rest of my life. This sucks. -------- RIP Rich. I know you had a rough last couple years, you were the definition of a "complicated person", and despite everything you will be missed.
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saiya-jin 3 hours ago | undown | root | parent | next [] You are twisting words quite a bit. I very much belong to 'the other' tribe of not giving a nanofraction of a gently caress about some of these 'achievements' pushed on us, done by people who don't get the concept and urgency of work-life balance. No amazon prime deliveries? In fact, no Amazon deliveries in Switzerland that make any sense? We get by just fine. We don't order food from restaurants, it negates the very reason why to go to restaurant in the first place, the social experience is just not there. I can cook +-comparably well and actually enjoy the process. And so on. I have myself mapped extremely well thanks to long term involvement with some extreme sports, backpacking around the globe and few times use of psilocybin in the right setting. I know exactly what makes me tick and what is superficial shallow BS, and what you describe is right there. Again, achievements you describe as some holy grail of mankind mean next to nothing. My wife is a doctor, exactly same story - she can tell you all evening about true respectable achievements, and none of it is about some engineer figuring slightly more effective way for business to deliver. And don't drag the topic into 'you didn't stop this from happening!' - we are adults, and responsible for our own development and life paths. Don't expect me or anybody else to babysit you and set your life straight to get happy and fulfilled life. If you won't, no guidebook nor internet course, nor aging itself will. Get your own poo poo together and do it yourself to be more precise.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:if it is bad it is bad with too much context and reading between lines for a comedy thread at any rate "I have myself mapped extremely well thanks to long term involvement with some extreme sports, backpacking around the globe and few times use of psilocybin in the right setting." Penisface posted:i mean absolutely the post is tonally super german-speaker know-it-all, but yeah it's not super off the mark here That's not a chad, that's the very image of a Burning Man-going VC or founder or outgoing techbro
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It's just an extremely abrasively defensive and self-promoting reply to a post that's not that bad tuyguntn 7 hours ago | root | parent | next [] I think parent OP used "we" very much correctly, don't try to isolate some people's impact on society. We all enjoyed when Jeff Bezos delivered our products faster to our homes. We enjoyed when our food is delivered from any restaurant we asked, we enjoyed traveling to other places and generating CO2 along the way. And do you know why we enjoyed them? Because those people who strive for achievements worked really hard to create these conveniences for us, for some of them there was no personal life, working nights, no family, just career! And they achieved what they wanted. Now they demand from everyone such dedication. Hence some companies (employees to be exact) are creating hidden rules not to promote people with kids, because at some point they might not be as productive as 21 years who just graduated, with lots of energy to burn and cheap to employ. People don't want to have kids because they might distract from their career. Now our society has problems, pollution, low wages, homelessness, burned out people, because not everyone can perform on their peers level without kids, without personal life and so on And "we" who don't strive for achievement didn't stop them.
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they're replying to it with LoTR and Harry Potter quotes ffs
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29387264 lol what a clusterfuck of cattiness especially in the first subthread Also random cameo besides those CEOs - eganist 40 minutes ago | root | parent | next [] worth noting that the parent comment was flagged to death 4 minutes after posting and vouched what, a half hour later? Anyway, I sent this to the comment author via email, but the best I can do in public is link to https://www.blackburncenter.org/post/on-believing-victims Context: I run r/Relationship Advice.
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DaTroof posted:poo poo, just throw a dart at the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29463051 If YOSPOS had a thread on Blind it'd be nonstop insanity and toxicity
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ultrafilter posted:From Dunbar's number (bolding mine): It's called the Monkeysphere.
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Penisface posted:what a great idea! after all, none of the starships have blown up completely in the sky, raining debris everywhere Build the waste containers out of airplane black box material, problem solved
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